We started talking about drinking awfully early in the morning Friday during my regular weekly political chat on Oregon Public Broadcasting with political scientist Bill Lunch and OPB host Geoff Norcross. The subject, of course, was the beginning of private liquor sales in Washington state following last November's passage of an initiative abolishing the state monopoly on liquor sales.

We also talked about which ballot measures appear headed to the Oregon ballot and the hiring of former New York City schools superintendent Rudy Crew to be Oregon's chief education officer.